Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Qarabag

Feel sorry for him but Sarr is more experienced than him so it was always gonna be him.

 

Agree with you. It’s why I don’t like the system when I see the full backs up in the 10 position and nobody back except the centre backs, it encourages the opponent as they know one turnover and they’re in on goal.

 

Do you think that maybe once in a while we'd play a free kick into the box rather than playing backwards?

 

In case you wondered why I've been apopleptic about the Dragusin purchase.

Dragusin is an old school low block guy. Can't handle playing a high line. The opposite of the ball playing CB Angeball needs.

 

yep. And these are the situations I thought we’d see more of than we do, to be honest. It’s about time something like this happened. I suppose it makes a change from conceding set pieces! Just a shame that it was Dragusin, who’ll now get pelters, despite his lack of game time. Not great for his confidence at all.

 

We need someone in midfield dropping back to sit between the CBs in that arrangement like Dier or Wanyama did under Poch when Walker and Rose were haring up the pitch

Gray could be that player when he gets more established - but right now we need one of Bissouma or Sarr to know when to add an extra man to the defence

 

I’m going to make a bold prediction that we won’t keep a clean sheet tonight

 

It’s beyond stupid we still play a high line even with a man down.

You’d have thought we’d have learnt from the Chelsea battering.

 

This ****ing high line. Ange needs to bin it. The defenders aren’t good enough to play it properly

 

Ramao with his eleventh foul of the game.

No card.

 

Nailed on. But regardless, we should be beating Qarabag, even with 10 men.

 

Ange doesn’t learn, it was, is and will always be my biggest issue with him.

“It’s just who we are, mate”

 

It’s who we are mate

 

This is where a more pragmatic approach would be so useful.

Goal up and a man down yet we're still playing full throttle and leaving acres of open space.

 

Yeah if the full backs are gonna push up then someone else has to drop back otherwise it’s so easy for Spurs to be outnumbered as is happening more and more frequently

 

This is the kind of game you battle down the hatches and try and win ugly and move on. No one cares about the style of football in this situation

 

We're still insisting on playing a high line with 10 and Qarabag pushing 4 up! That's suicide!

 

Even if you win, this type of defending is exhausting for players. So many sprints, the muscle injuries will soon be coming.

 

We need to pray that Van de Ven doesn’t get injured, as there is a massive amount of reliance on him that he will keep bailing us out

 

Grays picked up a knock from that last foul